Accident Proneness: A Research Review

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• Creators:
  Rodgers, Mark D. ; Blanchard, Robert E.
• Corporate Creators:
  Civil Aeromedical Institute
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Office of Aviation Medicine
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Accident proneness
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Psychological tests
  • Reviews
  • Accidents--Psychological aspects--Reviews
  • Personality
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FAA/AM-93/9
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• Abstract:
  Accident proneness is a concept that refers to an enduring or stable personality characteristic that predisposes an individual toward having accidents (Haddon, Suchman, and Klein, 1964). The concept is controversial and has sustained a lively debate in the literature over the past 75 years. For the most part, though, continual interest has been fueled by poor experimental procedures, misinterpretation of previously reported results, the need to assign blame to individuals, and a rather curious doggedness in attempting to establish a relationship between accidents and personality traits, despite the lack of supporting scientific evidence. This paper reports the origins of the notion of accident proneness and reviews the studies that purport to support or refute it.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/21360/dot_21360_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 626.40 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection ; FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5d20875aced447e894c899a9b5badd07dcd36905e6a16220cf59011340a830877f2290af7a91de97290c57ee8a9d853ce6a303c2d9aa1c11861c6a13e7276873